PHARMACEUTICAL INFORMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000200550007-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: February 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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6. Vaccines and sera are produced locally at an institute-#ttached to the University
Clinic. The products include anti-tetanus and anti-diphtheria sera.
Pk uaceutical I aports
7. All rw materials, except herbal extracts,-are imported from the Soviet Union and
Czec b. slovakia. Items imported in large quantities from the USSR include:
a. Acetisal; (sic, possibly acetal?)
b. Caffein;
c. Theobromine;
d. Ether,;
e. Acetone;
f. Calcium gluconate;
Hydrochloric acid; and
he Nitric acid.
8. Limited local production farces Bulgaria to import most of its medical supplies.
The S ri U.-An takes M -rat place among the suppliers, followed by Czechoslovakia
w; d H wxgad7y. Imports from the USSR include.-
Fie Az: ~ -malarial drugs, piasmooh ' atebrini quinine;
b. Sulfa drugs.;
c. PAS (Para Dnino Sallcfic Acid) for the treatment of tuberculosis; and
ci.. Ant-,r ictics' streptamycine and panloillin.
9. U2-t. a,3cgptii is imported priba ;ipally from Hungary.
hog??,rs,ge of Drugs
10. Then, tho.gs are not imported in sufficient quantities., and the following drugs
in partlc lar are in short supply:
a. The sulfa group;
b. Antibiotics, to be hand only upon presentation of permits issued by the
M.nistry of Health;
c. Biochemical preparations; and
d. Salphagiiaridi g ;issued to children only, because of limited quantities available.3
25X1 A 1. Commenbg. Ilyantsi is the second station on the Sofia-Mezdra line.
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